Nothing was said about Ashanti, I guess that everyone involved just wanted to forget all about that one :P
And yeah David Fury was saying he got the idea from taking his daughter to one of Britney’s shows and feeling like she came across as very robotic and ‘I’m here to please you’, so I can see why she wouldn’t be thrilled at the character they presented to her. I think it still comes across in the finished episode that they intended for April to be played by Britney though, no offence to the actress who was very pretty, but the reactions to April always seemed so over the top to me in the episode. The way Anya and Tara were getting jealous at the ‘Who’s that’ reactions from their partners, the way people were practically drooling, it all felt like quite a pointed way of of winking to the audience that here is a character being played by a really famous sex symbol. It makes me wonder if it was only at the last minute that they found out Britney wasn’t going to do it?
And it sounds like no one was particularly happy with the compromises made for season 4, I just wish that the writers could have been more professional when it came to letting their anger with Charisma affect how the character was being portrayed. It was awful when Charisma was all dressed up in the dominatrix type outfits when she was heavily pregnant, and making out with the Beast with, ‘give Mama some sugar’. It felt purposely degrading in a way, you could tell that Charisma had just given up by then :( And certainly zero effort was put into protecting the character of Cordelia, for practically an entire season there was just nothing to remind us of the real Cordelia with even a few small scenes of her fighting to regain control of her body and be heard
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Date: 2017-11-27 04:59 pm (UTC)And yeah David Fury was saying he got the idea from taking his daughter to one of Britney’s shows and feeling like she came across as very robotic and ‘I’m here to please you’, so I can see why she wouldn’t be thrilled at the character they presented to her. I think it still comes across in the finished episode that they intended for April to be played by Britney though, no offence to the actress who was very pretty, but the reactions to April always seemed so over the top to me in the episode. The way Anya and Tara were getting jealous at the ‘Who’s that’ reactions from their partners, the way people were practically drooling, it all felt like quite a pointed way of of winking to the audience that here is a character being played by a really famous sex symbol. It makes me wonder if it was only at the last minute that they found out Britney wasn’t going to do it?
And it sounds like no one was particularly happy with the compromises made for season 4, I just wish that the writers could have been more professional when it came to letting their anger with Charisma affect how the character was being portrayed. It was awful when Charisma was all dressed up in the dominatrix type outfits when she was heavily pregnant, and making out with the Beast with, ‘give Mama some sugar’. It felt purposely degrading in a way, you could tell that Charisma had just given up by then :( And certainly zero effort was put into protecting the character of Cordelia, for practically an entire season there was just nothing to remind us of the real Cordelia with even a few small scenes of her fighting to regain control of her body and be heard